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Show-up
Just read in The St Valentine's Day Massacre by William Helmer that a police line-up was known as a show-up in the 1920s.Is this true and, if so, was it just a Chicago usage or wider spread?
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OED2 gives this sense--"to disgrace or discredit by a thorough exposure; to exhibit as an impostor or an imposture; to expose (a person's faults, ignorance, misdeeds, etc.)"--from 1827.
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In the US there is a difference- a line up is usually 6 people, including the suspect in custody, who are observed through a mirror by the witness. It happens in jails, not the field.(Photos of 6...
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I think aldi's original question shows that we know it as a "line-up" as well as a "parade of suspects" in the UK.
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